IDEAL | Lingo: The family word game, do you know your Lingo?| Family TV Show Board Game | For 3+ Players | Ages 10+

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Starting in Season 2, if the team was stumped they could call for a bonus letter. One bonus letter was earned for each lingo made during the main game, plus one more for winning the game. Sometimes the bonus letter they called for would complete the word, and it happened on several occasions.

Stelter, Brian (March 6, 2008). "As Went Love Connection, So Goes Lingo". The New York Times . Retrieved December 14, 2017. In Round 2, points were doubled. This meant that correct words were now worth 50 points, and lingos were worth 100 points. Plus to help the teams in making lingo, three question mark balls were added to both teams' hoppers, they acted as wild cards, for whenever a question mark ball was pulled, the team could select any number to cover up, even the ones that caused a lingo (which happened occasionally). When this occurred, the wild-card-replaced number was not removed from the hopper, if it happened to be drawn later, the draw was ignored (for the purpose of game play) and had to be edited out of the show before it was aired. Lingo returned in June of 2011 with comedian Bill Engvall taking charge, and some new format changes.Tie breaker from season five. The tie was 275 points but it didn't show for this season. Bonus Lingo [ ] An example of the Bonus Lingo board layout in season two. On this board, the 16 is required to win on the first draw. Tournaments and special episodes [ edit ] Each word in the front game has a set value. A team has ten seconds to solve each word. For every correct guess the value will diminish. Once the word is guessed, the team in control wins the remaining amount.

GSN held a tournament of champions with particularly successful contestants from its second and third seasons. Instead of playing Bonus Lingo in the final tournament episode, a third round was played in which points were tripled: words were now worth 75 points and Lingos were worth 150 points. The question mark balls from the second round carried over to the third round. At the end of the show, the team with the most points won the tournament and won a Suzuki Verona for each teammate.

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Before becoming the host/executive producer of the CBS version, RuPaul appeared as a guest on The Price is Right at Night with Drew Carey on May 11, 2020.